Victor Hugo Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael -
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Jack Kevorkian -
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
Lewis H. Lapham -
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf -
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
William S. Burroughs -
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Plutarch -
If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
William Shakespeare -
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld -
I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
Wendy Carlos -
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
William Gurnall -
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
N. Katherine Hayles -
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps -
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong -
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
C. Day Lewis -
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
Elizabeth Hoyt
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Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.
Bob Proctor -
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.
K. Eric Drexler -
We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.
Dalai Lama -
Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt -
Where are your emotions? Where is your passion? I swear you care more.
Bella Andre -
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo